Re: make fails if path has spaces

Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Andreas Pflug wrote:
> >
> >>If configure detects some tools in the existing path, the build process
> >>may fail.
> >>In my case, there's perl under c:\program files. make will fail while in
> >>bin/psql because "/c/program" is not found.
> >
> >
> > I am not surprised. We do not do proper quoting of environment
> > variables in configure.in. I also don't know if the autoconf program
> > that creates the configure output does proper quoting either. Can you
> > tell us where it is failing by looking in config.log?
>
> I'm no sure what you mean. AFAICS configure does detect the program
> location all right, but it should either omit the full path, so the
> program is located using $PATH, or executables found should be quoted.

Yes, the executable has to be quoted. Where is it being referenced
unquoted?

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